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Vasari's Vite — The book that made gold ground works look old-fashioned
Vasari's Lives set the tracks that every survey of Italian art still runs on.
Four Antonello da Messina works stolen from Museum in Sicily
Museo Regionale di Messina (MuMe) in Sicily, Italy
Il Libro dell’Arte - The book that tells us how gold ground works were made
Around 1400 a Tuscan painter of no great fame wrote down everything he knew.
Before they were masterpieces — “primitives, pre-Renaissance, early Italian”
For most of their existence, Italian gold-ground panels were not admired.
The Return of Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece
Florence - “The return of this masterpiece restores the altarpiece to its historical, spiritual, and liturgical context.” — Simonetta Brandolini d’Adda, President of Friends of Florence
The Weight of the Divine: How Giotto’s Santa Maria Novella Crucifix Reconstructed Art History
Giotto di Bondone - By making Christ truly human, he laid the foundational stones for the Renaissance and changed modern European painting forever.
PAINTED GOLD. El Greco and Art between Crete and Venice
Palazzo Ducale - Venice welcomed a growing influx of artworks and artists from the Aegean islands.
Giotto and Saint Francis: major exhibition at the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria
Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria - The display gathers more than sixty works.